History
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FACTORTIERRA born as an electronic book about Tambogrande issue on October 1st, 2000, created by Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo, a Piura, Peru-based media advisor, who was working in San Lorenzo Valley in that time.
Making a condensation of people statements and independent research, book became a weekly update website until it is launched independently on August 2001 as a media specialized on issue.
FACTORTIERRA’s reason at time was incompatibility of agricultural and mining activities in the same place, because it put on risk water and feed sources from local people was depending as well as an international range economic activity too.
With this thesis, it starts investigations at Piura Andes zone and uncovers mining activity riskier than it usually was defending because a higher damage level, that was originally called Huancabamba issue, and lately known as Rio Blanco issue.
Alter contributing victory in Tambogrande issue in 2005, FACTORTIERRA focused its effort on Rio Blanco issue and added a new case about handicraft mining at Quiroz Valley promoted in part by Canadian company Plexmar.
Starting 2006, FACTORTIERRA sets a re-engineering because it got impact on key issues for Piura, but it had joined enough experience to manage virtually any kind of advocacy.
So it decided to enlarge and disconcentrate later all the work, dividing it into two parts – the original network and a new division dedicated only to advocacy cases with own funding.
To fund network and new division’s some project it joined NPC Comunicaciones as a subsidiary division specialized on communication advisory and commercial projects.
On October 2006, FACTORTIERRA acquires its own website where there is a lot to do and new challenges to win.
About FACTORTIERRA | About our work | History | Alliances we hold | Profiles and contacts